James Carville

"It's the economy, stupid" became the key phrase that Bill Clinton's campaign adopted in 1992 to thwart George H.W. Bush's unsuccessful bid for a second term as president. Political strategist James Carville invented this term to emphasize the economic morass that many felt during sluggish economic growth of the first few years of the l990s.

In 1992 the American economy was just emerging from a two-year recession. Many Americans worried about their economic prospects. One of Clinton's first actions as president was to push for a $241 billion tax hike, which was approved by Congress. By the time Clinton began to run for his second term in 1995, 50 percent of U.S....

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